Dorothy Doane Foster

FOSTER, Dorothy Doane, passed away in Richmond, December 8, 2009. She was born July 23, 1917 in Springfield, Massachusetts to Arthur W. Doane and Beatrice Smith Doane, the first of six children. She was predeceased by her husband, Grayson Marchant Foster, who died in 1983. Surviving are her children, Grayson M. Foster Jr. and his wife, Darle, of Houston, Texas, Candace Foster Junker of Richmond, and Jay L. Foster of Mathews, Virginia; seven grandchildren, Michelle Foster Gholson, Sara Junker Cobb, Kate Junker Modica, John Grayson Junker, Christian Junker, Jennifer Foster and Alison Foster; and three great- grandchildren, Lauren Gholson, Wesley Gholson and Isabel Junker; two brothers, Jay Doane and David Doane; and two sisters, Beverly Putnam and Betty Zamparelli. Dorothy moved to Hampton, Virginia from Massachusetts in 1939, and worked at the Newport News Shipyard where she met and married her husband in 1940. They moved to Mathews in 1947 where they started an accounting business, which was operational until Dorothy entered assisted living in Richmond in 2003. While living in Mathews, she served on the School Board for eight years beginning in 1979 and the County Board of Supervisors from 1988 to 1999. A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, December 11 at Foster-Faulkner Funeral Home, Mathews, with a graveside service at 3 p.m. in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Westville Christian Church, Mathews, Va. 23109.


This obituary was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.